Time Smuggling Starting from the Year 2000

Simo first sent Huang Xuan to a hotel he was familiar with, and after confirming his accommodation, he took him to the warehouse in the Inner Harbor. The prosperity here is no less than the commercial street in the 21st century. If you compare it with the rich people here A ratio that perhaps only Wall Street can match. pepe contribution

Venice in the 15th century, as well as other commercial cities in Italy - Florence, Genoa, Cyprus and Marseille in France, almost constituted the main business circle in Europe, and the credit system in this period was extremely extensively developed.

The credit system is indispensable in long-distance trade, especially in international trade. From about the 13th century, the big merchants in Venice no longer needed to use blood relatives as ship owners, because with credit, the cost of commercial transactions Much lowered, the 15th-century Buddhist Poggio Bracciolini vividly tells a story about commercial credit in his "Short Stories": a man named Danocella needs to pay someone in Florence A large sum of ducats, so he gave the money to the Medici Bank in Rome, in exchange for a letter of credit, and took the letter of credit to Florence, and on the way, he began to doubt whether he could receive this A sum of money, but as soon as he was in the bank in Florence, his money was paid to him at once. So he came to Cosimo and said: "Your credit is your reputation." Cosimo replied: "Danocella, the trust of others is the wealth of a merchant. The more trust a merchant has , the richer he becomes.

The last sentence is quite a classic explanation of the source of the Venetian merchants' wealth.

same period. Around the middle of the Ming Dynasty in China, although banks had the same business as withdrawals from other places, their functions were still too weak compared to the prototype of the modern Venice bank. When the Genoese can already use the letter of credit endorsement. The trade pattern of Chinese banks has not changed fundamentally. pepe contribution

Italian business skills provided an important impetus for later Western European commerce and capitalism.

And Huang Xuan. It is easy and habitual to adapt to this impetus.

For an ordinary businessman who has not received professional training in international trade. The financial services provided by Genoa and Venice are quite mature and comprehensive.

When simply putting 580 tons of wheat in the warehouse, Huang Xuan got 520 ducats almost immediately.

After inspecting the wheat. Dest warmly shook hands with Huang Xuan and said, "When your fleet arrives next time, please be sure to notify the Perot Chamber of Commerce."

Huang Xuan smiled and nodded, like an Italian who had completed the transaction, hugged Dest face to face, and left the warehouse with the money.

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Early the next morning, Huang Xuan came to Perot Firm again, and said to the strange Dest, "Oh, please forgive my cautiousness. Because it's the first time I've come here."

Dest has a very long hooked nose. He maintained a professional smile and replied, "What do you mean?"

"Actually I still have some wheat and paddy to sell."

"Same quality?"

"Of course, from the same region." Huang Xuan added in his heart, "It's the same plane."

Dest immediately regained his energy. He waved to Massimo and said, "If you don't mind, we need to confirm first, and then prepare gold coins. How many bushels do you have?"

"A lot." Huang Xuan pouted. He brought 10,000 tons of grain, about 1 ear, worth 25,000 gold ducats, which is roughly equivalent to the larger nobles in Venice—there are about 200 such nobles, that is, families capable of running for leadership.

Venetian merchants rarely doubt the credibility of another merchant subjectively, so Dest smiled and sent Huang Xuan out of the room. As the store manager, he has his own responsibilities.

However, Massimo soon returned to the Perot firm. His red hair was covered with beads of sweat, and he said to Dest panting, "Sir, I think you should go and have a look."

"What?"

"Mr. Kosa has at least 100,000 bushels of wheat and rice in his warehouse, color."

Even the standard grain from the r plane is quite good.

Hearing 100,000 bushels, Davis immediately sorted out the work at hand: \u003c. Seamus walked out the door.

In fact, 430,000 bushels were placed by Huang Xuan in a rented warehouse on the outskirts of Venice. 200 workers counted for a whole day.

25,000 gold ducats are no longer something that can be lifted by manpower. Perot Business Board, Mesero personally handed over the letter of credit from Peruzzi Bank to Huang Xuan, saying: "Mr. Xhosa, on behalf of the bank

You join us, of course, you need to provide some of your personal information.

Huang Xuan did not refuse, but took a look at the letter of credit, put it in his pocket and said, "I can't get the information until I return to France, but I'm very happy to do business with you."

"Me too." Mesero is an aristocrat in his 50s. He has a luxurious style rarely seen by merchants in this period. His clothes buttons are made of transparent glass, which is crystal clear. In this period, transparent glass Prices are comparable to pearls of equal weight.

Mesero is a person who pays attention to details. His nails are very clean, which is very different from ordinary Europeans. While shaking hands with Huang Xuan, he said: "Mr. Xhosa needs to buy something in Venice What? Maybe I can help."

Huang Xuan really needed help, because he was only here for 4 hours, and if he wanted to buy enough things, he couldn't wander around the square.

Every business is willing to deal with creditworthy firms.

Huang Xuan patted the letter of credit stuffed in his chest, and said with a smile: "Personally, I prefer products from Africa, such as ivory, rhino horn, leather, wool..."

Africa during this period mainly refers to Egypt, the Almoravid Empire and the Almohad Empire (split) successively established in southern Morocco, a small number of regions in East and West Africa, and Zimbabwe and Madagascar in South Africa. Wool, leather, wax, alum, ivory, gold, rhino horn, spices, and slaves from slavery or non-slavery countries abounded here.

Compared with spices such as musk and cloves, which are expensive in Europe, the prices of commodities that have been regulated or gradually disappeared in modern society, such as ivory and rhino horn, become more exciting.

Mesero smiled because of Huang Xuan's big appetite. 25,000 gold ducats can be bought: _The things he bought are only different in quantity. The price of ivory is about 100 ducats, and rhino horn is half the price." He glanced at Huang Xuan as he spoke, and said, "Do you really want African pigs and wool?".

"Oh, of course not." Huang Xuan spread his hands and said, "As long as the quality is acceptable, the place of origin doesn't matter." This is exactly the thinking of the Italians, they don't care much about the quality and delivery time of products that exceed the standard , but willing to save more money. This is the exact opposite of the Germans, who would rather pay a little more and demand better treatment and strict delivery times.

Mesero smiled even wider, and said: "In fact, we have a lot of trade relations with the Slavic region. If you like, we can provide a lot of leather from Eastern Europe and even further regions. As for wool, that's even better. Solved, we have a fleet to and from England every year, and the Peruzzi Bank that shows us the letter of credit is the Baldi Bank that jointly controls all the English wool trading rights. But I personally recommend that you buy already produced ones For woolen cloth, there are 200 woolen factories in Florence, and you can buy enough woolen cloth.”

The energy screen that Huang Xuan opened conveniently shows that Mesero has no falsehoods. Based on the analysis of a higher similarity plane, Florence should produce 70,000 to 80,000 pieces of woolen cloth every year, and the value of \u003e+ woolen cloth is as high as 120 florins. Almost 200 gold ducats. Just to buy them, 800,000 tons of grain will be used. If all the US aircraft carriers in active service are converted into freighters, the food can almost fill them all.

If it was normal, Huang Xuan might have let go of such a project with a lot of exercise and low profit, but definitely a lot of profit, but facing the threat of the Space-Time Administration, he never dared to be lazy anymore.

Clearing his throat, Huang Xuan made up the reason again, saying: "Yesterday my first fleet left Venice, and they were originally going to Florence to load goods, if Perot Trading Company can provide all the supplies in a short time If so, I can recall the fleet."

"What short period of time are you referring to?" Mesero is a very cautious person, and he does not relax because of the huge transaction amount.

"Within three days." Huang Xuan said firmly.

Davis next to him took a deep breath. Venice was a global market in the 15th century, and it was common for fleets to catch up with monsoons to catch up with fleets that strictly demanded time, but they had never encountered such an urgent situation as Huang Xuan.

"If you can do it, I can also recruit fleets heading to other locations. These fleets carry a lot of food."

Mesero began to be a little confused about Huang Xuan's background. At this moment, another Venetian rushed over and said loudly, "Excuse me, are you Mr. Xhosa?".